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Back to SearchMegalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News
The measles outbreak in West Texas is slowing. Health officials think an increase in vaccination rates contributed to the slowdown, but Texas lawmake…
7 months, 1 week ago
Are You Flourishing? This Global Study Has Surprising Takeaways
Are you flourishing? It’s a more understated metric than happiness, but it can provide a multidimensional assessment of our quality of life. Victor C…
7 months, 1 week ago
Diagnosing Male Infertility with a Mechanical Engineering Twist
Male infertility is undercovered and underdiscussed. If a couple is struggling to conceive, there’s a 50–50 chance that sperm health is a contributin…
7 months, 1 week ago
Could We Speak to Dolphins? A Promising LLM Makes That a Possibility
Dolphins have a broad vocabulary. They vocalize with whistles, clicks and “burst pulses.”This varied communication makes it challenging for scientist…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Do Mitochondria Talk to Each Other? A New Look at the Cell’s Powerhouse
Mitochondria are known as the powerhouse of the cell—but new research suggests they might be far more complex. Columbia University’s Martin Picard jo…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Make Gold, Flamingo Food Tornado, and Kosmos-482 Lands
Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos-482 lands, though no one is certain where. Physicists turn lead into gold. Overdose deaths are down, in part thanks to t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Could Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change?
The year-round sea ice in the Arctic is melting and has shrunk by nearly 40 percent over the past four decades. Geoengineering companies such as Real…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
How a West Texas Outbreak Threatens Measles Elimination Status
Measles was technically “eliminated” in the U.S. in 2000 thanks to high measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rates. While prior outbreaks hav…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Sinking Cities, Waving Cuttlefish and Falling Spacecraft
A 1970s Soviet spacecraft is hurtling down from space—and no one knows where it will land. All 28 of the most populous cities in the U.S. are slowly …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
This Podcast Was Recorded Inside a Particle Collider
We’re taking a field trip to the U.S.’s only particle collider, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), housed at Brookhaven National Laboratory.…
8 months ago